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Definition of Buteonine
1. Noun. Any hawk of the genus Buteo.
2. Adjective. Relating to or resembling a hawk of the genus Buteo.
Definition of Buteonine
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buteonine
Literary usage of Buteonine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"Their nests are less bulky than those of our buteonine Hawks, the eggs in some
species being laid on the bare rock or in a hollow tree. ..."
2. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1902)
"Its cries are not exactly like those of any Hawk known to the writer, although
they are unmistakably buteonine. Once mated I feel sure that the union is for ..."
3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1870)
"Feet buteonine, but tarsus more robust compared with the toes than in that group.
Bill very strong, the tip well developed and rather abruptly hooked; ..."
4. Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania: With Special Reference to the Food by Benjamin Harry Warren (1890)
"The inner webs of the flight feathers extensively white from the base, usually
with little, if any, of the dark barring so prevalent among buteonine hawks. ..."
5. Magazine of Zoology and Botany by Sir William Jardine, Prideaux John Selby, George Johnston (1837)
"As unexceptionable representatives of the aquiline and buteonine groups of this
order of birds, we sr.ay take the Golden Eagle, ..."
6. Illustrations of British Ornithology by Prideaux John Selby (1833)
"Their flight is slow, but buoyant; their wings being broad, but short, and much
rounded. Their quills are strongly notched, as in the buteonine subfamily of ..."
7. The Birds of India: Being a Natural History of All the Birds Known to by Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1862)
"... of South America appears to be a buteonine type, and perhaps does not belong
to the Eagles. ..."
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